Chapter 20: Aftermath

Kaminari had enough, these villains had separated him from his precious daughter, and it was enough. It would take more than Shinso to stop him from doing unspeakable things to them. Two villains had found him and the class, and it went about as well as one could have expected. A long discharged bolt of electricity fried the skeleton and the nerd that had burrowed up out of the ground.

The air still reeked of the metallic smell of electricity. Kaminari's eye twitched as he waited for Shoji to return. He had wanted to go and search, but the two more level headed heroes held him back. While he was running off emotions, he knew that going in heated wouldn't be good, so he reluctantly agreed.

He hoped that his students, and more importantly his daughter were ok. He vividly remembered what happened when his class was attacked at the USJ. He and Jirou had nearly died, and with regret he had told Saori about it. He hoped that his warning was enough for her.

"Mr. Kaminari," Nagisa Honneuki asked, the usually somewhat quiet boy noticing that the teacher was troubled, "Are you ok?"

"Oh yeah," Kaminari chuckled, quickly throwing up a smile for the student, "There's nothing to worry about, Shoji is a great hero, all your friends are gonna be safe."

"I don't doubt that," Nagisa agreed, looking towards the doorway that the tentacled pro hero had ran through, "I just hope you're doing well."

"Don't worry," Kaminari calmed again, "Everything will be fine."

"Keep up the morale Kaminari," Shinso commented as he walked into the room, his mask still on his face, "I just received word from Shoji, the students are all alive, a few are injured, but no one life threateningly."

"What really?!" Kaminari exclaimed loudly, his quirk acting up slightly, electricity sparking around him, "My baby girl's fine?!"

"I wouldn't go that far," Shinso replied, a small smirk on his face, "She did inherit a family trait."

"You don't mean?" Kaminari gulped, "The Whey?"

"I do mean that." Shinso smirked, "But she'll be fine."

The students were all recovered and other heroes from different hero agencies came to help the situation. Along with the other heroes came the police and ambulance. All the students that had been separated from the main class needed medical attention, luckily most of it was minor. However Ruri suffered from a concussion and several lacerations on her head, and Riva had minor bleeding in her throat.

The students separated from the main class were escorted to the police station along with the villains being put in armored transit. The rest of the class had someone come pick them up to take them home. For the students, this event would always be in their mind, but it was finally over.

The first thing Takato knew when he woke up was that his head hurt. He knew exactly why, Chargebolt had fried both him and Amano as soon as they popped up in the room. It wasn't exactly fair, but it had to be expected when dealing with heroes. Shaking his head he focused on the scene in front of him. His whole gang was stuffed into the back of an armored police car, their arms bound in quirk suppressing cuffs, though he was the only one that it wasn't needed for.

"Finally awake Takato?" Amano asked, the nerdy man looking over from his seat beside him, "Can't believe you got us caught."

"Shaddup Amano," Takato spat out, furious that the brains was blaming him for the plan gone awry, "Last I checked you were right there beside me!"

"I wasn't the muscle," Amano shot back, equally as peeved as his associate, "That's your job!"

"Silence!" Apex roared, his head hung low, his shaggy hair draped over his face, hiding it from view, "It was no one's fault besides my own." The group looked towards their normally confident and brutal leader, someone they had never seen take responsibility for anything, "Painkiller gave us the information and we acted, we had little time to plan. We shouldn't have rushed."

"I'm so sorry," Painkiller apologized, her eyes wet with tears, the metal faceguard she wore broken and torn from her face, blood still caked across it, "I just wanted revenge, I wanted it so much!"

"I understand all too well," Apex looked up, his eyes staring towards some unknown location.

"LOOK OUT!" The officer driving the van shouted just as they crashed into something heavy. The front of the vehicle crumpled like a tin can. The group of villains heard the officer as he hit the airbag and went unconscious. Flying around the inside of the van, Apex ended up on the ground as the sounds of battle could be heard outside. A minor hero had been assigned to escort the armored van, and from the sounds of it, he was the wrong choice.

Soon silence filled the air, save for the heavy breathing coming from the inside of the van. Soon footsteps were heard again, quickly followed by an ear piercing shriek as a blade made of water forced its way through the door. Like a canopener the door was cut open, the hunk of metal fell revealing a man in a blood red cloak.

"Greetings," The cloaked man bowed, his costume billowing around him, betraying any illusion that a physical body existed beneath.

"Who the frack are you?" Takato spat, his temper getting the better of him as the cloaked figure ignored him, his water blade slicing through the quirk suppressing cuffs on each of their hands, "Hey I'm talking to ya!"

"It's no matter to you who I am," The man rasped as he turned to Painkiller, "Henka Zaigotsu, I have been watching you."

"Watching me? What why?" The skull faced girl asked, sweat beginning to trickle down her face.

"You show great promise, you have a trait that sets you apart from the rest," He reached out, his hand holding her face, "You have the makings of an angel."

"Who ARE you?" Apex asked, his hand rubbing his wrist where his cuffs had been.

"I am Lucifer," The man replied, his pure white eyes examining Apex, "And you too have potential, but we shall see if you are capable of being an angel."

"What does that mean?" Apex asked as he helped Ursa to stand, the bear woman having taken the brunt of the crash.

"Follow me, and I shall show you a promised land."

"Ok, cut it with the religious mumbo jumbo!" Takato screamed, a gun, likely retrieved from the space his quirk created in his chest, pointed at Lucifer, "Why in the world would we follow ya? Just cause ya saved us means nothing, we're our own guys and do what we want, I only followed Apex cause there coulda been money in the gig."

"Yeah for once I agree with Skull head," Amano agreed, his quirk activated, his hands replaced by spinning drills, "We don't gotta do nothing for you!"

"Like lambs to the slaughter," Lucifer shook his head in disappointment, "Blissfully unaware of the fate that await them."

"Last time I checked," Takato would've smirked if his literal skull head would have allowed, "Two is greater than one."

"Yeah!" Amano backed him up, "We gotcha outnumbered."

"Heathens," Lucifer acted fast. Diving forward he ducked under a stray shot from Takato's gun. His hand turned into his signature blade of water, the watery weapon plunged itself into Amano's stomach, it's blue color quickly turning red as it collected blood. Takato turned to Lucifer, ready to fire again, but the superior villain was too fast and caught Takato's face in his hand. His fingers closing slowly.

"LET GO, LET GO, LET GO!" Takato screamed as the pressure slowly increased, cracks showing up as his skull weakened.

"Normally your kind is reserved for Phanuel," Lucifer muttered under his breath, his pure white eyes fading into deep red as he tightened his grip, "But today is an exception, you're scum!"

"PLEASE NO!" Takato screamed his final words as Lucifer tightened his grip more, the skull shattering in his bare hands, fragments of the bone flying in all directions.

"TAKATO!" Amano screamed despite the blade still lodged in his gut, "YOU MONSTER!"

"That, coming from you?" Lucifer chuckled, pulling his blade from the villain, letting him drop to the ground, "But I haven't shown you anything yet!" His hand returning to normal, Lucifer cackled insanely as he picked up Amano by his face. His hand transformed into water again, this time becoming long tendrils as they snaked their way into his mouth and nose. Pushing them deeper and deeper, Lucifer cut off his airways and filled the villain's lungs with water.

Amano struggled, hopelessly grasping at Lucifer's hand. Thrashing as his eyes plead for his life, Amano seemed to scream with just them. Finally the little life that they held faded as his struggling form went limp.

Turning to the three remaining villains Lucifer dropped his corpse, "Do you have any problems with following me?" They shook their heads in disagreement, "Perfect." Waving his hand, black smoke swirled in front of the group, "Come, follow me."

A/N: Well guys here we are, at the mighty 20th chapter! Crazy right? BTW I bet you guys totally forgot about this guy! MUAHAHAHA. What's he planning? What's he doing? Well I know, but I won't tell ya. You'll have to keep reading to figure it out! MUAHAHAH. GO BEYOND PLUS ULTRA!

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